The 'E' Type Forum

Jan, the biggest Jaguar club in the UK is the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club https://jec.org.uk/ You might find it worth contacting them to find if they have answers to your questions or know who to talk to. The cost of joining the club is easily outweighed by the savings you get at SNG Barratt as a club m...

No! They take up so much space, much easier to take the work to a man with a lathe and let him get his hands dirty

Geoff

Look at a couple of the topics below and these:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11589
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6245

Geoff

Philippe, welcome to the best place for all things E Type. Lots of help, information and advice. There's also a good sense of humour. Read the restoration section for examples of how others have gone through what you will experience: https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewforum.php?f=8 Ask questions and you'...

Besides going to an airfield to buy avgas where else can you buy 100 octane fuel? And why do you want that? E5 and E10 are all the standard fuels in Europe which you surely buy at all the normal petrol stations for your other cars. And which you’ll have to use in your E Type in the future, unless yo...

You don’t need lead, can you get premium 98 octane e5 from Esso, Shell, etc.? If you can you’ll be fine. Don’t worry about all these claims of having to put exotic fuels in your car. If you can only get e10 95 octane you may need to de-tune the engine to avoid pinking, but you’ll know how to do that...

Rory, should it become available in 2024 when I hope to tackle my OTS engine I’d be pleased to borrow it for a suitable donation or even buy it to then loan out to others on the forum.

Geoff

Nicole, if you look top right where your user name is you can select the down arrow and then modify your user signature to include your name and car type. There’s lots of help on here. Having a name to reply to is much more polite and if we know which car type you have then repossess can be tailored...

rfs1957 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:03 pm

Is it like stamps, they become more valuable once they’re off to cock

That’d be a good description of most us us, though not sure about becoming valuable

Rory, on my S2 there is one catch above the forward bolt that holds the canister to the car, with the other two at 120 degrees from there. So that means one is above the inlet tubes and all well clear of any frames. To get that arrangement would mean you drilling off and re-positioning all three. Ho...

Pierre, is this a new bonnet or was it like this when you bought the car? (Hood is the American word, bonnet is English). If you bought the car with it like that you should have asked the seller to fix it before paying. Here is a recent topic about adjusting the bonnet https://forum.etypeuk.com/view...

Rory, that is excellent and should be added to the knowledge base. Andy Raynor included a simple diagram with the frames I bought from him for my S2. That and your thesis will really help and I’m going to copy the above to a pdf and print it out to have to hand. I’d buy you a beer, bottle of wine or...

Or buy a new old type from Barratt’s, paint the top black and try out your skills with tippex

Paul, a search for “hood” in Restoration Stories gave quite a few hits. One here on post 129 could help you
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5832&p=130055&hilit=Hood#p130055

Look at other search results in the same section to hopefully find other photos.

Geoff

Michel, can you confirm which carburettors you have, please? I’m guessing two Stromberg? You may find good comments on jaglovers which is an American website and they will have more experience of doing something like this. Also they have comments about how to adjust Strombergs to give better perform...

Thim, we are encouraged not to use quotes as it takes up valuable server space, only doing so when really needed and you can easily delete unneeded parts to reduce to a minimum amount of quote.

Regards

Geoff

max-it-out wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 13, 2023 2:36 pm

Or you can reverse the bump stops which gives a few extra mm clearance .

205/70/15 on standard wheels scraped against the bracket with no bumps stops fitted. The bracket itself needed to be ground off.

Geoff

Mikael, be aware that fitting 205 tyres to the rear wheels may need the bump stop brackets grinding off as the tyres can scrape on them.

Geoff

Ok, Steve, but what are those two high lumps sticking up above the cockpit in your earlier photo? Post no. 20

Geoff

Steve, are the seats from the original car and hence you had to use them? They look more like barn doors that’ll increase the drag dramatically. Could you fit MX5 seats instead?

Geoff